qqc mental math 1

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"In Chapter 7, you will learn a useful technique for memorizing numbers. This will be handy in and out of the classroom. Using an easy-to-learn system for turning numbers into words, you will be able to quickly and easily memorize any number: dates, phone numbers, whatever you want.

Question:
Like in the chapter why didn't they teach us this techniques in elementary school? Will that had change how well we do arithmetic process in test and/OR homework? May this have confused us?

Comment:
I think the reason why this techniques were not taught to us is because it would have confused us because in my opinion we need a better understanding to number and other topics related to math.

QQC Flow

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“Despite the fact that even the least affluent among us are surrounded by materials luxuries undreamed of even a few decades ago and regardless of all the stupendous scientific knowledge we can summon at will, people often end up feeling that their lives have been wasted”

“Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives.

Question

Do people ever stop and think at their optimal experience? Like in the text, why are people looking for happiness so “directly”? If we have good health and are doing economically well then are we happy? Or is there something else?

Comment

I think this reading comes at the perfect time when everybody is rushing to get out of high school and want to move on. I think now it’s a time to look back at those “optimal experiences” that we had in last four years because that’s what I think this reading is about.

Math Proposal

This proposal could be an investigation of a math topic you are curious about, applying what we have learned in the classroom to a real world problem , or applying mathematics to your passions (i.e. music, physics, hairstyling?)

My math proposal is to split into groups and to focus in math in nature. We can split into groups of 2 and have a list of math topics relates to nature. for example; Fibonnaci numbers, fractals, ripple effects, etc... The final product can be like a notebook that explains the topics and having examples of it.

The book of numbers chapter 1

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"There are many superstitions about the number one, and some even have a litle sense behind them. It is said that "if you break one egg, you will break a leg -a good rhyme to teach clumsy children to be careful with eggs."

Question

Who came up with all this ridiculously superstitions? Is One special only because it has rare properties? What does that mean? Amicable umbers? Who finds this connections between numbers?

Comment

This chapter was really interesting because the topics in the beginning were sort of ridiculously,about the superstition. It was a good hook. Also I notice that in chapters before it has mentioned that numbers are the fundamentals of the universe.

The book of numbers chapter 0.000000001

Quote:
"The babylonians and Romans soon had symbols and words to define fractions, and the Egytians developed a well established method for writing fractions. The fractional notation that we know today."

Question:
How did the Egyptians came up with the fraction notation? Why didn't became popular whhen Brahmagupta wrote his book? How much work that we have given to Pythagoras actually his?
Doas it change how people feel about him?

Comment:
It's very inerresting how the terms calculate and calculator came about, and how we still use it. Something I found very strange is how long ago they came up witht the fraction notataion. Its just wierd how long it to people to warm up to the idea of fractions and decimals. It's also wierd how maybe "credit" we have giving to mathematician maybe not theirs directly.

QQC Newton

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"Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort"

"Both men feared for Newton's sanity. They responded with careful concern and wise humanity, and the crisis passed"

Question
Why was Halley so mad about Newton not speaking out about? Why did her expect him to say when he asked him about the ellipse? I wonder if he had some kind of mental illness? Or why didn't he like to speak out? I wonder what it would have been to be in his brain?

Comment
This article was about Newton and his life. At times alot of his friends worried about because he was acting very uncaring and so oblivious to his work.

QQC 5-6

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It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the nineteenth century - positively gripped it - in a way that no science ever had before or would again.

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and inispired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper.

Question

Has science lost its interest to young ones? Why is it that we have lost interest like there was before? Where has our interest gone? In the reading why did Hutton wrote his findings in a way that no one understood? in the second chapter why didn't anyone took interest in the bone that was toss aside? How would history change if someone taken interest in the bone from the beginning?

Comment

From the first article I find it very interesting how bad Hutton's writing were and how after his dead Playfair "produced a simplified exposition" of Hutton's work. The simplified xplaniation on Hutton's findings about how the marine findings had risen up with the mountains itself instead, contradicting other people's belief that the sea levels had changed.